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My view: I disagree, but let’s be honest. If you have women priests, it only makes sense to have women bishops. At least Catholics and Orthodox are consistent.
While Catholic ecclesiology, as practiced by Orthodoxy and Catholicism, does not permit the changing of Apostolic Tradition (even the pope can’t do it), Protestant ecclesiology permits it, so long as “due process” is observed (basically, what John always points out). If Anglo-Catholics are bothered by these innovations, then I would think they would do more than simply request “flying bishops,” which, IMHO, is a rather unCatholic option. Isn’t Anglo-Catholics requesting flying bishops a bit like saying “we want our own personal Catholic bishops so we can still be good members of a Protestant denomination?”
The Church of England has been a heretical sect since the day old King Henry VIII decided to pretend he was better than the Pope. The decrepit tree is finally bearing it’s rotten fruit for all the world to see. Let us hope that those Anglicans who want to enter the Catholic Church will be welcomed with open arms, as long as they renounce heresy at the door.
I agree that drawing a line between priests and bishops is completely arbitrary. The position that women can be priests and not bishops is incoherent.
My fear is that the more radical among us Catholics and Orthodox will take note of this and say, “See, THEY are doing it…why can’t we?” It is time for THE Church to simply cut off ALL so-called ecumenical relations with ALL heretical groups…end of story.
This just in: Church of England to proceed with ordination of first orangutan in the see of Borneo.
The great ape, answering to the name of Budi, will be consecrated as primate of Borneo. When asked of his reaction the orangutan showed his teeth in a playful manner and proceeded to put a bag over his head. Spokesmen for his hairiness claim this can be roughly translated as “no comment”.
If you’re in open communion with open and formal heretics, flying bishops or not, guess what that makes you?
Anglicanism? Anglican comprehension — hey, there’s a play on words there somewhere. After more than thirty years of soul searching, the Episcopal Church defined itself as something that the rather nebulous phrase “post-modernism” might embrace. A little logic here — if something is beyond the modern (what is happening now), then where are you?